Whenever I eat lunch near a computer, which usually happens every day, I open a new browser window with all of my favorite news sites pre-loaded. During a short lunch period, I cram in as much information and as much food

I spend a lot of time online shopping. I’ve encountered a bevy of payment systems, each with its own quirks. By now, though, payment and checkout processes are overwhelmingly fluid and user-friendly. For more than a year, I’ve been involved with

Twenty years ago, I started preschool at Prescott Elementary School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was a classic upbringing in a blue-collar neighborhood. It was simpler. Math was math, kids were kids, there was no air conditioning, and corporal punishment was

Recently, I found myself on the Wikipedia page for Memcached, a popular distributed object caching system. It turns out that the open-source project was developed by the guy who created LiveJournal. LiveJournal is a blogging site that started in 1999,

GeeksForGeeks is a Computer Science portal based in India. It’s hard not to end up on the site while searching for answers to interview questions. It’s a sprawling repository for everything related to programming, but especially for topics commonly tested in the fabled “Coding Interview.”

I’m a big fan of low-cost mutual funds and the firms that peddle them. Firms like Vanguard have changed the game and helped people from all walks of life reach their financial goals more quickly and with less fine print.

uWant to be your own boss? Earn income passively? Make a small initial investment and then stack paper on auto-pilot? If so, Flippa will seem like a marketplace where you can fulfill your greatest fantasies. The tagline on the landing

Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 9th, 2018 Reading Time: Two weeks, light reading I was in a library for the first time in my adult life and saw this on a shelf among many books I’ve

I estimate that I’ve written north of 800 reviews. Books, vacation spots, restaurants–I just like writing. I like forcing myself to think critically about the things I purchase and experience. I’ve also been involved with businesses and products that have

I’ve been reading with great avidity for several years. I try to read a book each week. After finishing one, I decide on a star rating and publish a review on Goodreads. Sometimes I’ll use that review box as a